Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spencer Tracy, 63, in his Los Angeles home, with a continuing respiratory ailment complicated by diabetes; Cincinnati Reds' Manager Fred Hutchinson, 44, in his physician brother's Seattle home, with a malignancy in an undisclosed area; Brendan Behan, 40, in Dublin's Meath Hospital, with pneumonia and head injuries after he was found lying in a pool of blood. He had been out celebrating his exit from the Royal City of Dublin Hospital...
...harder time treating him. If he is dead, the coroner has difficulty deciding between accident and suicide. Medical researchers are still debating whether the effects of alcohol and barbiturates*are multiplied or simply added together. But now, in a report to the American Chemical Society, a biochemist and a physician suggest an explanation for the alky-pheno combo's deadly powers...
Biochemist Jack E. Wallace and Physician Elmer V. Dahl could not do their research on human beings, so they took the body enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase and studied it in the test tube. Normally, this enzyme breaks down alcohol in the body to acetaldehyde, which another enzyme in turn breaks down to acetic acid. In their experiments at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, the researchers learned that barbiturates hinder the first breakdown process and leave a lot of alcohol in the system. And alcohol has a severe depressing effect on some primitive nerves, including the vital center that regulates breathing...
...U.S.C.'s Psychiatrist Edward J. Stain-brook told the seminar, seem to be trying to say: "Nobody cares about me, so I have to take care of myself. I'd like someone to care for me in the same way that I care about myself." If the physician treats this patient's physical complaints and nothing more, said Dr. Stainbrook, he is wasting everybody's time. For the real medical truth is hid den in the patient's locked-up emotions...
...through 40 ft. of limestone and clay near the southern city of Nimes, has been famous since the Roman era for its naturally carbonated mineral water, but it took an Englishman, touring France about 60 years ago, to realize its commercial potential. Visiting the spring's owner, Physician Charles Perrier, a young Oxford graduate named Albert St. John Harmsworth* tasted the water, was so inspired that he bought the spring, with a promise that Dr. Perrier's name would be placed on all his bottles. Harmsworth also originated the 12-oz. Indian-club bottle that has become...